‘Google Me’. Rumour or Truth?
by tahera on July 20th, 2010
filed under Chit-Chat, Techonolgy
Speculation has been flying around for a while now on whether Google is attempting to create a new social networking site. The rumoured site has been labelled “Google Me” and is an effort to try and compete against Facebook and the success they thought it would never have.
Can the world’s most popular search engine succeed in also becoming the world’s most popular social networking site?
In my opinion I think they have a very good chance in doing so. Orkut was hugely popular in India until recently when Facebook has crept in, and Google’s concerns have grown. The origins of the rumour come from a tweet from Kevin Rose (co-founder of Digg)
The tweet did not stay up long, as apparently he was told to remove it. This in itself fuels the rumours that it may not actually just be a rumour.
Google Buzz was a failure, and we are hoping Google learned from its mistakes. ReadWriteWeb made a good point: “90 percent of the content published into Buzz is automated: 63 percent is piped in from Twitter and 27 percent is from automated RSS feeds.” How is that social networking? It hasn’t been long since the launch and deterioration of this attempt at social networking. The new project must therefore be a complete service networking site and I’m thinking they will no doubt model it off Facebook.
The question on everyone’s lips is can Google really do social networking? Or should they stick to what they know best? However what is it that they know best? Google has its fingers in many pies, including acquisitions in the health industry, but they’ve tried twice now and failed with social media (buzz and wave) should they just sit back and let someone else have some control and power for once? Although both these ideas were placed on the backbone of another product, maybe that was their downfall, they need to make a whole new standalone platform to which people would sign up and interact.
If you think about all the Google products you use on the web today, it wouldn’t be hard for them to aggregate all your data into one site and create a networking platform.
So what could GoogleMe do and provide that would be different and rival Facebook, one exciting idea could be: integration with all existing Google products.
So you have gmail, Google docs, Picasa, Google checkout, Google voice and even search to name but a few. Would it be worthwhile if you or I could share a Google spreadsheet with a specific group through the social networking site? For example your group labelled “colleagues”. Or a group labelled “housemates” sharing cleaning rotas and bill payment details?
Although what Google come up with, can Facebook with their knowledge and experience do better? What would you like to see from ‘Google Me’ ?
A House Overlooking Water On The Moon…Yes please!
by tahera on November 14th, 2009
filed under Chit-Chat
It’s always been suspected that the moon’s surface had more water than we originally thought. Confirmation arrived on Friday that made exploring the moon exciting once more. The moon has always been considered as inhospitable, however now hopes have arisen for a future astronaut outpost.
“We found water. And we didn’t find just a little bit. We found a significant amount,”Anthony Colaprete, lead scientist for the mission.
The 25 gallons discovered was only what they could see as a result of the space shuttle crash on the moon, if that one spot showed 25 gallons of water, how much is spread over the rest of the surface? There could be much, much more, an abundance of water would be ideal for a base camp, supplying not only drinking water but water is needed for rocket fuel.
It was NASA’s Oct. 9 mission in conjunction with the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), that gave us the incredible confirmation announced Friday 13th November 2009— much water, in the forms of ice and vapor existed on the moon!
GoodBye Carlsberg?!
by tahera on September 16th, 2009
filed under Chit-Chat
Top Football Sponsorship Deals
On Monday, the Standard Chartered Bank joined the ranks of rich organisations paying large sums of money to put their names on the shirts of leading European football teams/clubs. They agreed the best deal yet with Liverpool for four-years worth up to £80m (€91m).
The State of Britain
by tahera on September 16th, 2009
filed under Chit-Chat
Public spending will soon account for almost half the UK economy. Only in world wars has the British state assumed such importance in the past.
Gordon Brown has admitted for the 1st time public spending cuts are just around the corner as he addressed the TUC conference in Liverpool yesterday. We’ve been holding our breath waiting for Mr. Brown to utter the fatal C-word and all of a sudden we hear it four times in 10 seconds in the same speech!
This ‘game’ of waiting to see which senior minister will give in to become the first to admit spending cuts will be needed to tackle Britain’s £175bn deficit was becoming a joke….maybe things are finally changing?
Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Appear In The New Terminator…sort of…
by tahera on May 8th, 2009
filed under Chit-Chat
Arnie has starred in all three blockbuster Terminator films, and now will be appearing in the new terminator film all thanks to technology!
California governor Schwarzenegger will be in the film as an image, inserted in from earlier films. Being the governor and all, he had no time to shoot the footage himself!
The killer robot from the 1984 original Terminator movie will be used to play the 61 year old. A press screening in LA confirmed this delight at the thought of being in movies again. He is definitely going to be able to make it to the premier on 14th may and holds director Joseph McGinty Nichol in high regard.
Christian Bale will be playing resistance leader John Connor, in the new movie dubbed “Terminator Salvation”
A recent review I read on the “Ain’t It Cool News” website said the film was “uplifting and hopeful”. not sure what that’s supposed to mean, as it carried on with Arnie’s cameo was pretty “cool” but Bale’s performance was “a little over the top at times”. Anyhoo I look forward to seeing it when it hits the UK on the 3rd of June, I’ll make up my own mind…..
What am i doing here?
by tahera on February 21st, 2009
filed under Chit-Chat, Twitter
So the other day I decided a blog would be a good idea. You know a place to inform, entertain and let me communicate my view to the world, and of course hear other peoples. So off I went into the big world of the inter-web, and found the perfect URL.
My first name. Couldn’t believe it was still available….So I snapped it up like a starving piranha, in a public swimming pool.
I bought the domain, and found hosting. Now for the content.
Absolute Blank.
What was I going to write about? Who was going to be interested? Wait a minute, what was the big deal about a blog anyway? So I started thinking ….. blogs are a vital role in social media, news coverage and analysis of stuff.
OK so they don’t provide up to the minute breaking news like twitter, the newest craze of social media, – but blogs give you more substance, thought and depth than those afforded by a 140 character text box.
So I figured I’d use this space as a personal brain dump, and general word vomit…if not I’ll sell the domain on…maybe to the diamond corporation that has the .com of my name!